Poll: Majority in US see relations with adversaries souring

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and NUHA DOLBY
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of U.S. adults expect America’s relations with foreign adversaries like Russia and North Korea to grow more hostile, according to a new poll. That’s a major shift in public opinion from four years ago under President Donald Trump. Two years into the Biden administration, the poll from the Pearson Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 60% of U.S. adults say relations with adversaries will get worse, up from 26% four years ago at the same point in the Trump administration. In general, 39% expect the U.S. global standing to worsen, compared with 48% who said that in 2018.